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The Beach Boys Historical Landmark Project 2006 AACE International Transactions PM.13 The Beach Boys Historical Landmark Project Mr. Harry W. Jarnagan PE CCE e don't listen to and write music because it's California; Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson; Mike Love; Al “ cute. We listen to and write music because we Jardine; and David Marks, were much more than a great musical are members of the human race. And the act. They became a force in history, having an outsized impact human race is filled with passion. And not only on the history of California in the latter half of the 20th Wmedicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits century, but also on the music recording industry itself. With and necessary to sustain life. But music, beauty, romance, love, their uncompromising devotion to the quality of their product in these are what we stay alive for." - paraphrased quote from Robin the studio, The Beach Boys launched innovations in the Williams, playing the part of private school teacher John Keating recording industry that are accepted as commonplace today, and in the 1989 motion picture, "Dead Poets Society." they have influenced countless numbers of recording artists. Music lovers have been avid listeners of the music of The Although The Beach Boys' place in history remains certain, Beach Boys for over four decades, and there's no sign that this the place where Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson came to music's popularity will end soon. The Beach Boys arose from and manhood and where the group was born, the home owned by came to prominence due to the complex socio-economic forces Murry and Audree Wilson at 3701 W. 119th Street in Hawthorne, marking late 1950's America, characterized by the then-teenaged was demolished to construct a freeway in the mid-1980's. Since and largely middle class "baby boomers" with their ever-present that date, no commemorative monument, sign, or marker of any transistor radios, love of rock-and-roll, cars, and growing kind has ever been erected to mark the birth of this cultural and fascination with the new fad of surfing, a traditionally Hawaiian musical phenomenon. That oversight would be corrected, sport that was glamorized in movie theaters of the day and however, by the initiation of the Beach Boys Historical Landmark sweeping the West Coast of the U.S. Project by the author. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll cites The approval of the State of California to register the Site of The Beach Boys as the most successful American rock band ever, the Childhood Home of the Beach Boys as a California Historical with an array of platinum and gold single records and albums that Landmark launched a highly visible capital project to design and has never been equaled. Yet, these six young men from construct a monument that would be a fitting tribute to The Hawthorne, Beach Boys and their contributions to history. This paper discusses not only how the full range of project controls and management disciplines are being brought to bear to efficiently complete this project, but also the historical background of The PM.13.1 2006 AACE International Transactions Beach Boys and the work involved in submitting a comprehensive rock music on his transistor radio. He began to focus on and landmark application that was unanimously approved by the analyze the music and harmonies of "The Four Freshmen," a California Historical Resources Commission. popular vocal group of the day, replicating their songs on his piano. Not only were his vocal skills extraordinary, but he soon HISTORICAL BACKGROUND developed advanced instrumental and song writing skills. Notwithstanding that his senior year music teacher at Hawthorne Murry and Audree Wilson: The story of The Beach Boys High School awarded Brian with the grade of "F" for having begins with the mass migration of Midwesterners to Southern submitted as a homework assignment an original song entitled, California in the early 20th century, accelerated by the "Surfin' USA," instead of a required ballad, it was clear that a completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct project by water czar remarkable musical creativity had taken hold within the teenaged William Mulholland in 1913. Two of those families lured to the Brian Wilson. region in the 1920's as part of the so-called "third wave" of immigration to the Los Angeles basin, were the Wilson's of The Pendletones—The Wilson brothers had spent most of Hutchinson, Kansas, and the Korthoff's of Minneapolis. their formative years singing with their cousin Mike Love, Transplanted Midwesterners Murry Wilson and Audree Korthoff practicing harmonies with him often. Some of their friends also eventually met in high school and were married in March 1938. showed musical talents, to include Brian's football teammate from Besides sharing the Midwest as their place of birth, Murry Hawthorne High School, Al Jardine, and neighborhood friend and Audree Wilson also shared a deep love of music. They would David Marks. Although Brian, Mike, and Al, as the oldest of this sing together as a means of entertainment in their home and on circle of family and friends initially moved in different career visits to Murry's sister, Glee Love, whose husband, Milton, was directions after high school graduation, the pull of music was part of a prominent family-owned sheet metal business in Los strong, leading them to form an informal group called, "The Angeles. Murry also pursued a moon lighting career as a song- Pendletones." Having named themselves after the "Pendleton" writer, but with limited success. His personal high point as a shirts that were a popular item of clothing among the surfers of the writer, however, was realized when the band leader Lawrence day, The Pendletones developed a musical style that combined Welk performed Murry's song, "Two Step Side Step" on one of his the harmonies of the most popular 1950's vocal groups with the programs. driving guitar playing style of Chuck Berry. Under the persuasion Murry and Audree's family grew, and they brought into the of Dennis Wilson, they began to perform songs with the world three remarkable children; Brian, born in 1942; Dennis, predominant theme of surfing, a sport that was sweeping the born in 1944; and Carl, born in 1946. Initially living in Los Southern California beaches. Angeles in their early years as a couple, Murry and Audree moved to the South Bay community of Hawthorne, purchasing a middle Birth of a Musical Legacy-The Beach Boys—Responding to class tract home located at 3701 W. 119th Street in March 1945. the encouragement of Al Jardine to form a folk singing group, As the three Wilson sons grew, the emphasis on music continued. Brian and Al and the rest of The Pendletones gathered in the Singing sessions at their home in Hawthorne and when visiting music room of the Wilson home on W. 119th Street during Labor the home of their cousins, the Loves, were commonplace. Day Weekend, 1961, to play music, to "jam," and to record music Audree and Murry nurtured the musical talent of all of the on Brian's tape recorder. Not present at the time due to being children, and eventually the garage of the home on W. 119th away on a business trip, Murry and Audree left $200 with Brian for Street was converted into a music room. the purchase of groceries and other needs that might arise. Armed with this unplanned "financing," Brian and his brothers and Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson—As so often happens in friends instead decided to use the money to rent musical families with multiple children, each of the Wilson sons matured equipment, and to record a song that they've just written entitled, with somewhat different personalities. Dennis was a rambunc- "Surfin'." Upon his return, father Murry, although unhappy to tious troublemaker named, "Dennis the Menace," by the see his money spent so frivolously, sees the potential of the song, neighbors. Not being fond of school, he would often be truant, and takes the tape to his friends Dorinda and Morgan Hite at spending his time at the nearby beaches learning the sport of Guild Music. The Hites decide to invite The Pendletones into surfing and enveloping himself in that lifestyle. Carl, the their studio to make a professional-grade tape of "Surfin'", finally youngest Wilson, was more serious. Quiet and introverted, he designating take number 7 as the version that they would retain. developed a marked interest in playing the guitar, quickly The Hites decide to press "Surfin'" into a master 45 rpm learning the instrument's intricacies, and learning to imitate the single for production, but there's a problem with the groups' "guitar riffs" of Chuck Berry, a prominent 1950's rock and roll name. "The Pendletones" is a name already taken by another music artist. musical act, so a change to the group's name will be necessary. In Oldest son Brian, however, showed a special musical talent a phone conversation about a possible new name, Russ Regan, very early in life, albeit almost deaf in one ear. His favorite song who would later become the president of 20th Century Records, as a toddler was the Gershwin classic, "Rhapsody in Blue." He recommends the name "The Beach Boys," and thus the new surprised his parents by being able to precisely hum and sing name will be printed onto the production run of records without songs as a child in varying chords. An intense interest in music the knowledge of The Pendletones. "Surfin'" is released under continued within him; it became central to his life, with most of the "X" and "Candix" recording labels on December 8, 1961, and his free time being spent in record shops and listening to 1950's shortly thereafter played on the Los Angeles airwaves by the PM.13.2 2006 AACE International Transactions KFWB and KDAY radio station disk jockeys.
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